Under the scheme, inheritance tax can be deferred if an owner commits to keeping significant works in the country and makes them available for the public to view. But it “is an incredibly small obligation”, with owners having to make an item available for no more than 28 days a year.
Category: visual
2013’s Best New Architecture
“While a certain modern classicism predominated in 2013, there was another strain of smart buildings that aimed for a contemporary sensibility more concerned with sustainability, landscape, the vernacular and even geology.”
Who Has The Least Power In The Artworld? (A Top 20 List)
“This is a particularly bad year for critics. Not a single entry on the Power 100, while print media keeps firing their full-time art critics. It’s so bad, some critics don’t even bother putting their names on scathing takedowns of multi-million-dollar shows since it really doesn’t matter.”
What Milwaukee Did In Visual Art This Year
It was a full year, as critic Mary Louise Shumacher chronicles.
New York Art Gallery Runs Into Trouble With Loan To South Korea
“A New York art gallery is in a $1.35 million legal dispute with South Korea’s Gwangju Biennale Foundation, a case that demonstrates the potential pitfalls of international loans as more fairs and exhibitions spring up around the world.”
Detroit’s Morality Play Pits City Against Art
“I think it’s immoral to play off art and culture against a person’s basic income,” says Michael Mulholland, vice president of the American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees, Local 207, which represents about 950 city employees.
Images Everywhere. So What Do They Mean?
“Amidst the surfeit of images today, the history of iconoclasm reminds us how powerful images can be in shaping and reshaping our relationship to the world. And, more importantly, how ephemeral every image can be.”
French Government Locates, Returns Antiquities Looted In Egypt’s Arab Spring
The objects were about to be sold online.
Where Illuminated Manuscripts Really Began
“Evidence has emerged for a previously unknown school of painting in sub-Saharan Africa that may have been responsible for the earliest Christian paintings in manuscripts.”
Lichtenstein Foundation Gives Thousands Of Works To Major Museums
The trove of about 200,000 photos and associated items – mostly photos of artists – will be distributed to the Getty in L.A., the Museum of Modern Art in N.Y., the Centre Pompidou in Paris, the National Gallery of Art in D.C., and the Tate in London.